In the Court of the Brexit King
- March 21, 2021
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- Matt
If there’s one important lesson about politics that tends too often to go unlearned, it’s this: You don’t need to be a genius or a titan to take power and use that power for malign purposes. In Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi – a surreal parody of Macbeth – the foulmouthed, halfwitted childlike slob Pere Ubu massacres...
Let them eat Tim Tams
- June 19, 2020
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- Matt
FULL TEXT OF BORIS JOHNSON’S BIRTHDAY ADDRESS
Good afternoon folks. I know this pandemic thingie has been an unprecedented challenge for all of us, but I think we can all agree that my government has handled it remarkably well. The figures speak for themselves. Only 42,288 dead – 64,000 excess deaths if you believe the Office...
Turning the Corner
- May 01, 2020
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- Matt
Spring is here, and even in a nation in lockdown, it’s possible to detect a new confidence and optimism at the helm of the United Kingdom of Populist Brexit Republics (UKPBR), a sense that the darkest days are over and that we have turned the corner in the war against Covid-19. Asked by Cathy Newman on...
Lockdown Sunday
- March 23, 2020
- by
- Matt
This weekend was the first weekend of spring. After a long dreary winter filled with rainy days, floods, and moaning winds, the population came out in force to enjoy the sunny weather. At Skegness, hundreds of thousands flocked to the caravan parks and arcades on Saturday. In Victoria and Richmond parks, cyclists, walkers and other...
One Nation Under a Virus
- March 17, 2020
- by
- Matt
I’m not a huge fan of Winston Churchill. He was racist, devious, and ruthless: a romantic imperialist who was as willing to celebrate the slaughter of ‘barbaric’ peoples who opposed the British Empire as he was to turn troops on striking Welsh miners or Greek communists But that doesn’t mean that I don’t recognise the...
Chronicle of a Coup Foretold
- December 20, 2019
- by
- Matt
A week on, there is no way you can really look on the 2019 General Election that makes it feel any better than it did on the night. The bare facts speak for themselves. The single greatest concentration of conmen, chancers, fanatics and incompetents in British political history have been given a majority by the...
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